I run a desktop and a laptop. They both have the same email address as my husband and I share this. When the PC is switched on, the emails come into that one, but when the laptop is on, they come into that one if the PC is switched off. Is there any easy way to transfer emails from the laptop to the PC without having to set up a new email address or sending each individual email to myself?

I get variations of this question a lot.

There are a lot of misunderstandings of exactly what email is, where it lives, and what it means to have an email address. Clearing up some of that should help you understand what's happening here, and also help you decide how you want to handle it.

There's a January 16, 2014 article at PCMag.com entitled, 'What Happens to Your Antivirus When Windows XP Is Dead?' The article provides detail about what many antivirus vendors said about continued support of XP after April 8, 2014 (for example, Norton was non-committal). The article also offers advice about staying safe after the death of XP (such as stop using the no-longer supported Internet Explorer in XP and use Chrome or Firefox instead, and switch away from Outlook Express as well).

Many years ago, I, quite by accident, opened a Microsoft Excel worksheet (not the entire file itself) that I had protected with a password. I did not even have to enter a password to do so. I think this was using MS Excel 2003. Don't know if this is still possible in later Excel versions, but I would definitely use something like AxCrypt or TrueCrypt to protect something as sensitive as a list of passwords, as Leo suggested.

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Net Neutrality

I wasn't going to talk about last week's defeat of Net Neutrality mostly because everyone in the tech press seems to be doing it for me. I had a friend ask if I was going to say anything and my response was, "Probably not."

I tend to shy away from politics and it's well beyond what most of my readers want to read.

But yeah, I am disappointed.

The more that I thought about it, the more I came to realize that Net Neutrality is something that you probably should care about (or at least be aware of), even if you're not in the United States. There are very strong opinions from all over the map on this one, and when someone says, "It's the death of the internet!" it's probably worth understanding what they're talking about, whether or not you agree.